NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans Police Department officer who was the subject of an I-Team investigation has been arrested and suspended without pay for his alleged involvement in a hit-and-run accident -- the second such accident for which he now faces criminal charges.

In January, the I-Team reported that investigators had charged Jones with hit and run and failure to maintain control of a vehicle in connection with a Jefferson Parish accident that seriously damaged his take-home squad car. The incident happened on Sept. 19, 2011.

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The new charges stem from an accident in Orleans Parish earlier in the same day. The NOPD had taken a report of a hit-and-run at Jackson Avenue and Magazine Street in which the reporting party claimed an NOPD cruiser struck a vehicle and drove off.

Jones is charged in that matter with disregarding a traffic signal, driving recklessly and hitting a parked car and leaving the scene.

No one was injured in either accident.

Jones served in the 8th District as a quality of life officer prior to his suspension. At the time of the initial I-Team report linking Jones to the Jefferson Parish accident, NOPD officials said they were conducting a probe to determine whether action would be taken regarding Jones.